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Sunday, January 10, 2010

Friday and Saturday Gone Frogging

As many of you know Frogging a polite term for ripping the damn sewing out that you just did to fix the f@%# mistake that Is Glaringly apparent in the piece once it is almost complete.

I was working on my third panel for a scrappy Bargello ( Another Bonnie Hunter Quilt) and well its not matching the 2 panels already sewn. After counting and matching colors in the panel I figured it out. One too many strips. Okay that shouldn't hold me up to much. Oh I was sooooo WRONG.

I turned it around and starting frogging and it came out fairly quickly. I took out what I thought was the offending piece and sewn the tube back together. Still was not matching ... I took out the wrong piece ... back to frogging This time I marked the piece with a quilting safety pin. Again took out the correct piece this time and stitched it back together.... What I forgot to do was return the piece that I took out the first time by this time I was getting seriously Peeved. (again polite term). Back to Frogging

I finally got that piece together right number of strips sewn back into a tube ready for cutting into strips. Pressed and set aside while I took out the next panel It too had one to many strips. Caught it before I cut into strips yeah!.. so I set it aside with the other panel and went and had a cup of coffee. So I could have a fresh start on Saturday so I would feel better if I got the panels cut into strips and done into the panels again.
Saturday bright and early 7 am after taking the dogs out I was completely awake because it was Frigging Cold out I decided I would put on the coffee and start back on the panels since Friday was a wash for project a day

. I matched up the fifth panel and was grateful that it matched. So I cut it. What I didn't count on is that I matched it to the one that I didn't take that offending strip out. Now since there was Three panels with and extra strip same . I matched up the colours to the panels that I already had sewn together and What the F@%# one extra strip but now I had cut the panel into strips grrrrrrrr. Did that mean that the first two panels that were already sewn were the actual wrong panels and I forgot to put a strip in. ??? I now notice that my colours are not matching and there is a green not where it is supposed to be and a red that extra in 2 others. I remember why I put it away in the first place. Question to all you quilters, do I just give in and sew it the way it is sewn or rip some more.

I have sewn two of those Scrappy Bargello quilts. I had different issues with each one, but not too bad. I would just sew up what you have and call it a variation of the pattern and be happy to go on to the next project.

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